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Larry Ellison emerges World’s Richest Man

The co-founder of the global IT giant, Oracle, Larry Ellison has reportedly emerged the world's richest man.

By this development, he has overtaken the owner of X platform, Elon Musk who had remained the world’s richest person.

Ellison, 81, amassed about $95 billion in additional wealth on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, as Oracle shares skyrocketed after the nearly 50-year-old IT firm forecast massive revenue growth.

That rise lifted Ellison’s overall fortune to nearly $393 billion compared with Musk’s roughly $385 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaires index.

A Bloomberg wealth index placed Ellison’s bounty slightly ahead of Musk’s, designating the Oracle chief number one at the moment. The difference in the tallies relates to how some of their huge holdings are estimated.

Reports indicate that Ellison and Musk are close friends, with the former often coming to latter’s aid during challenging periods.

He reportedly invested over $1 billion in Musk’s buyout of Twitter and served on Tesla’s board for many years.

Musk’s most easily estimated holding is Tesla, whose shares have fallen in 2025 amid languishing sales attributed partly to Musk’s embrace of far-right political causes.

Tesla earlier this month unveiled a compensation proposal for Musk that could top $1 trillion through 2035 if the company hits ambitious targets. Shareholders are expected to vote on the plan in November, 2025.

It's noteworthy that Ellison is a longtime supporter of the United States' President, Donald Trump.

He holds more than 1.1 billion dollars shares of Oracle, accounting for more than 40 percent of the company’s equity.